"It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety." (George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London)

"Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to poverty, but in my case the marriage is not a success." (Oscar Wilde)